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I thought maybe you'd found some nuggets with the Quatro. I keep reading about the "gold specific" detectors, as I call them, made by Minelab, cut jeepers, they cost a fortune to buy. I guess they're super sensitive to small pieces of gold and do better with the hot rocks. Don't know much about it, but, I too, would think the Quatro could pick up a fairly decent size nuggett. I havn't been with my gold finder friend yet, but I'll really try and do the test thing, if he has some nuggets. I'm due to meet with him at the end of December, so I'll let you know what happens. Marc.
 
Golden, your so much fun, I can hardley stand it!:lol: The one thing I missed earlier on in this "gold series" is: Did you say you have a Minelab 2000? Is that a "gold specific" detector? Sounds very interesting as an adjunct to the treasure hunting venue. Marc.
 
Gila, I think this guy who has a place in Ocitillo, near El Centro, has one of those gold bug detectors. I can't wait to get with him at new years, and bend his mind. He's a really terriffic guy and maybe we all could go out sometime down the road, but I'm still game to get with you in the first part of the year. Talk at you later. Marc.
 
Hi Beachguy, yes we've got a Minelab SD2200. Mostly hubby has used it on the goldfields. His boss years ago bought the detector, but doesn't get out much. So hubby now has it, on the proviso that any gold nuggets he finds, he goes halves with his boss. Ove the years he found plenty of nuggets, and they both profited from the detector. I have used it for going for relics, believe it or not, but it has me digging down sometimes three feet for useless bits of metal, and the ground is so dry where we go, it takes forever to dig down. It's a great sensetive detector, and a lot of prospectors love using it, and have done quite well with it.
Golden:detecting:
 
Ocotillo is a cool place, but I don't know if there is any gold nearby. In the mountains to the north there are some nickel deposits and a lot of low-grade tourmaline crystals. Also fossils, if you're into that sort of thing.

There's a fair amount of gold in the Cargo Muchacho Mountains closer to Yuma, most of it quite small pieces but just right for a GBII. Lots of old mine sites that probably have a few good relics or maybe some old coins.

Marc
 
Wow, three feet! That's some pretty "scary" depth on that bad boy. I heard the gold detectors were sensitve, but that's amazing. How big were the pieces of metal, I wonder? That really is some amazing depth.
 
Gila, you know your stuff! I don't know about all those mountain areas, but it sounds interesting. I'm also wondering about Quartzite? I'm thinking it might not be that old of an area, but I don't know. I'm also thinking of the sand dunes just outside of Yuma, on the California side, because I know they had an old road going through there, that is abandoned, but might yield some treasures? Kind of a long-shot on that one, but you never know. I'm still gearing up for sometime in January.:|
 
is sandstone like you find at the beach that has undergone a metamorphic change. Under tremendous pressure over many years, the sandstone becomes very compact, almost a stone in itself, but you can still see minute traces of fine grain through the stone. I don't believe quartzite is always associated with gold. Neither is quartz for that matter always associated with gold, but can sometimes contain gold. In my region, if you are looking for gold in a lead, you look at the greyish pug matter, the scientific name for it is fulkon. This greyish material is soft, sometimes flakey, and fine to thick lines run through through the quartz. It's here that you find gold contained within. Or we also find gold in the rusty coloured iron ore, the iron/suphite region. You'll find both pyrites and gold particles. But you have to use a burning off process to separate the gold from the pyrites. I think I have some quartzite around somewhere in the shed. I've also found small black tourmaline crystal around Wilson's Promitory, down south of Victoria. You find it on the beach.
 
Quartsite is relatively new. I doubt that you'd find any coins there pre-1960's, but the mountains south of there are famous for gold nuggets. My cousin has found several there over an ounce each! The area has been worked over a lot, but people still pull out a lot of gold occasionally.

The Dunes is a good place for modern coins and jewelry around the parking area, but recently California made it a state recreational area, or something, and charge an exhorbitant fee for entry...like $30 for a permit for one week (or one hour!), or $90 for a yearly permit. Also, you'd have to get permission from the "Rangers", and so far they haven't been too friendly. I haven't even dared ask about metal detecting, or the plank road. They're too busy with their cash-cow, with over 100,000 people there on any given holiday weekend....at an average of $60 per car. Just goes to show, you REALLY CAN sell sand in the desert!! :blink:

If you could do enough research to find where the remnants of the plank road are west of the dunes it might be worthwhile. Also, there's supposedly a lot of old stage stations, etc., between the dunes and San Diego, Indio or San Bernadino...just about anywhere they could find a water hole.

Marc
 
Golden, that's some wonderful information. I'm a little embarrassed here, because, what I was alurring here to Gila was a town called Quartzite. It's a small town kind of north of Yuma Arizona, but I'm just blown away by your knowledge of this stuff. You really know a lot about gold and anything to do with treasure hunting.
 
That's amazing to hear the way they're "raking them over the coals" money wise over at the dunes. I remember going through there when I was a kid and seeing that old plank road, or parts of it at least. Sounds like a risky cituation going over there now. Well, maybe they'd let us detect in the musemum dirt floor over at the Territorial prison. Im kidding, of course, I don't even know if they have a museum and it probably wouldn't have a dirt floor. Just poking fun at all this security thing.:|, but I know there's some great places to go over in the desert community. Talk at you later, Marc.
 
Didn't realise you were talking about a town. I didn't read the post properly, so not your fault Beachguy! You were right on the money there, don't know where I was!
Golden:rofl:
 
Golden your such a good sport, and you really do have a tremendous knowledge of the gold fields and treasure hunting in general. I really did mean that, but it's fun to "catch you as stuff", now and then, and for you to be such a good sport about it.:| Like the six feet deep gold nuggett.:bouncy: Boy your gonnna kill me for saying that, but we really got some "milage" out of that one. I guess I'm next for a good "ribbing".:biggrin:
 
Gosh Stan, that looks exactily like the kind of coke bottle I used to buy in the 50's when I was a kid. For all I know they might have been the same style back in the 30's or 40's. Maybe you could contact Coca Cola and find out some stuff. Great finds, very interesting stuff.
 
Three feet!!!! Your scaring me again Golden, but I've heard that the gold specific detectors by Minelab go REALLY DEEP, so maybe that's the ticket for super deep items. Marc.
 
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